Using directional antennas for medium access control in ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A Fast Access Scheme to Meet Delay Requirement for Wireless Access Network
ADVIS '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Information Systems
Optimization of Bandwidth and Energy Consumption in Wireless Local Area Networks
Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: Techniques and Tools, Performance 2002, Tutorial Lectures
Analysis of packet networks having contention-based reservation with application to GPRS
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A review on wireless home network technologies
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Runtime Optimization of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs Performance
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Two Alternative Schemes to EY-NPMA for Medium Access in High Bitrate Wireless LANs
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Mobile ad hoc networks: principles and practices
Wireless internet handbook
Methods for Scalable Self-Assembly of Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Fairness of medium access control protocols for multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Sensitivity and Coding of Opportunistic ALOHA in Sensor Networks with Mobile Access
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Maximizing transmission time (MTT): a distributed MAC scheme for enhancing wireless LAN performance
Mobile Networks and Applications
Mobile Networks and Applications
Capacity of UWB networks supporting multimedia services
QShine '06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Quality of service in heterogeneous wired/wireless networks
Capacity analysis and MAC enhancement for UWB broadband wireless access networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
MAC protocols over wireless mesh networks: problems and perspective
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
A short-term fair MAC protocol for WLANs
Ad Hoc Networks
Collision Prevention for Exploiting Spatial Reuse in Ad Hoc Network Using Directional Antenna
ICIC '08 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent Computing: Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications - with Aspects of Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Shannon bounds for large-scale wireless MAC's potential capacity in presence of errors
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Modified HCCA mechanism for improving QoS support in IEEE 802.11e networks
Mobility '08 Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems
QAP: A QoS supportive adaptive polling protocol for wireless LANs
Computer Communications
CSN '07 Proceedings of the Sixth IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks
Adaptation of TDMA parameters based on network conditions
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Performance of MAC protocols in beaconing mobile ad-hoc multibroadcast networks
MACOM'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Multiple access communications
Analytical performance of soft clustering protocols
Ad Hoc Networks
Enhanced HCCA mechanism for multimedia traffics with QoS support in IEEE 802.11e networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Fast collision resolution MAC with coordinated sleeping for WSNs
APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Advanced Web and Network Technologies, and Applications
Energy-Efficient, traffic-adaptive, fast collision resolution MAC for WSNs
UIC'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
ICOIN'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Information Networking: convergence in broadband and mobile networking
A survey and projection on medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A distributed QoS mechanism for ad hoc network
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Local heuristic for the refinement of multi-path routing in wireless mesh networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
On Busy-Tone Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks with Directional Antennas
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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Technological advances, coupled with the flexibility and mobility of wireless systems, are the driving force behind the Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime paradigm of networking. At the same time, we see a convergence of the telephone, cable and data networks into a unified network that supports multimedia and real-time applications like voice and video in addition to data. Medium access control protocols define rules for orderly access to the shared medium and play a crucial role in the efficient and fair sharing of scarce wireless bandwidth. The nature of the wireless channel brings new issues like location-dependent carrier sensing, time varying channel and burst errors. Low power requirements and half duplex operation of the wireless systems add to the challenge. Wireless MAC protocols have been heavily researched and a plethora of protocols have been proposed. Protocols have been devised for different types of architectures, different applications and different media. This survey discusses the challenges in the design of wireless MAC protocols, classifies them based on architecture and mode of operation, and describes their relative performance and application domains in which they are best deployed.